Aluminium hydroxide is used as a excipients in pharmaceutical industries,also used as Antacid under name of Alu-cap.

The major other uses of aluminium hydroxide is as a feedstock for the manufacture of other aluminium compounds: specialty calcined aluminas, aluminium sulfate, polyaluminium chloride, aluminium chloride, , sodium aluminate, activated alumina, aluminium nitrate. Aluminium hydroxide also finds use as fire retardant filler for polymer applications.